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5. Rebecca Puddy, ‘Australia facing an «epidemic of child abuse and neglect», according to experts’, ABC News (online), 16 September 2018.

6. Herman, Tr auma and Recovery, p. 96.

7. Australian Institute of Family Studies, ‘What is child abuse and neglect?’ CFCA Resource sheet, AIFS, September 2018.

8. Megan Mitchell, ‘A life free from violence and fear: a child’s right’, speech given at 2016 International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, 29 August 2016.

9. Ruth Clare, ‘Seen But Not Heard’, Meanjin, Summer 2017.

10. Rose Cairns et al., ‘Trends in self-poisoning and psychotropic drug use in people aged 5–19 years: A population-based retrospective cohort study in Australia’, BMJ Open, 2019, 9(2).

11. Mazoe Ford, ‘Australian suicide deaths rising among women and teenage girls, ABS figures show’, ABC News (online), 29 September 2016.

12. Paige Taylor, ‘Wyatt confronted with stark reminder of youth suicide scourge’, The Australian, 22 March 2019.

13. Shalailah Medhora, ‘«It rips your heart out»: Five Aboriginal girls under 15 died by suicide within days’, Hack, ABC Triple J, 18 January 2019.

14. Speech by Megan Mitchell, Australian Children’s Commissioner, at the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention Network Conference, 13 November 2017.

15. Australian Human Rights Commission, Children’s Rights Report, Sydney: AHRC, 2015, p. 99.